TIZEZER NAP

The farmer, Istvan Széles, talks about his past with his son, who has returned from the city provisionally. The father was a farm laborer in the service of the landowners in the 1930's. He faced other strokes of bad fortune. In 1945 there were the distribution of the land holdings and his enmity with Fulop Bano, a communist the same age as him. Unlike the father, Bano dedicated himself to the problems of the community. The father watched a crime take place without taking any action himself. The crime had grown out of an argument between a policeman and a farmer, and for this reason the father was sentenced to forced labor. When he was freed during the 1956 revolution, he saved Bano's life. Something has changed inside him. The figure of Széles's son, a university student, represents the modern approach to the problems that the film traces out. For the son, this is the past. This is history, and he has his future in front of him.

"We can notice more salut a significant, beautiful, and true Hungarian film. Tizezer nap is a rather isolated work in our cinema. If we look for artistic precedents, we can perhaps cite with some accuracy Emberek a havason (The Mountain Men). In any case, Tizezer nap is a modern work. It stands on the tradition in a way such that it can use - and this is self-evident - the latest formal advances in cinematographic art in a natural way. […] It handles the personal fates of two farmers. It is a Hungarian story ot the most modern times. It does this in an authentic, true, and varied way that is never just decorative. There are so many kinds of artistic prowess for so many historical periods." (Istvan Zsugan, "Esti Hirlap", 26/4/1967)

Director: Ferenc Kosa.
Screenplay: Ferenc Kosa, Imre Gyongyossy, Sandor Csoori.
Director of photography: Sandor Sara.
Music: Andras Szollosy.
Cast and characters: Tibor Molnar (Istvan Széles), Gyongyi Buros (sua moglie), Andras Kozak (suo figlio), Janos Koltai (Fulop Bano).
Production company: MaFilm (Studio 3), Budapest.